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Good morning, Seattle! It’s Monday morning, and wage slaves are commuting to work, meanwhile the stock market is up, and Puddy is hoping and praying that some crazy black person is burning down black churches in St. Louis so he can hate on black people. I’m curious why he does that. Does it have to do with his mother?

How can anybody buy into the claim that conservatives are the experts on lean efficiency and getting things done in government?

Not for the first time, we are witnessing this drawn out crowded clown car of a GOP nomination process. And were told that this is good for them because.. open competition, survival of the fittest, blah blah. And even though this process opens itself up to brazenly racist, homophobic, xenophobic, unqualified lunatics spouting lies and delusion, “serious” conservatives should not be concerned because “this is just the shopping phase”. And once we get closer to actual voting, the “real”, “electable” candidates will emerge from the pack.

But what then does that say about a process where the number 4 fund raiser, sitting at 1 or 2 in the polls is sincerely expected to just fade away in a couple of months? What happens to all that money? All that work? All those resources? Invested in a candidate that “the serious conservatives” fully expect to be eliminated in the next twelve weeks?

A system like this one can only arise and persist over many cycles if its objective has more to do with the interests of the professional political class than the outcome of general elections. It may indeed be efficient. But only insofar as it is efficient at redistributing money from large pools of donors into the accounts of professional political operatives.

Roger Rabbit Commentary: He’s now Wall Street’s favorite Republican candidate, and he may also be many Democrats’ favorite Republican candidate, too — for whatever that’s worth among the GOP grassroots.

Spent some time with the Wing-Nuttiest of my relatives for Halloween. Well until he left and took his kids to the church harvest festival. Had to leave before my kids got into costume because false profits, sin, evil spirits. He’s one of those.

But he keyed me into something I hadn’t heard before. The Syrians pouring into Europe aren’t refugees from a civil war. They are being sent there by the Caliphate in significant numbers to overwhelm the Christians and conquer Europe for Islam. Did a little Googling and this is a real thing.

Or so say the more xenophobic, racist and paranoid fringe of the far right Christians.

Where did Puddy infer your smelly pellets? It was your commentary that blew up in your senile face! You called him a crazy black guy! So now let’s turn the attack on Puddy because, well, Puddy caught “the old senile wabbit” again!

So why did you call him a crazy black guy? Such innate racist coming from your fingers! Black guy torches churches so yeah he must be crazy! Well maybe he’s a card carrying DUMMOCRETIN atheist?

Why are you inferring Puddy had anything to do with it? Standard Saul Alinsky ad hominem attack!

So why do you hate black people smelly senile wabbit? Why do you hate crazy black people? Is that what they taught you growing up in lily white Bloomfield Hills, Michigan? DUMMOCRETIN land?

BTW, you are pining for a white conservative perp by saying “which leaves five more unsolved at this time.” You are secretly hoping for that special media moment!

Black, ’cause, well, race quite obviously is in play here. These are mostly AA congregations. However integrated communities become, in many cases how people worship remains very segregated. And in America at least, one way that communities of color have been targeted for intimidation going back more than a century has been through church burning.

So you get crazy black guy v. crazy white guy. Not very complicated. It’s been part of the speculation from the start. You’d have to be supremely obtuse to have missed that.

The psycho-laugh. Not a good sign. It’s usually the precursor to a massive batshit crazy loon head explosion. My bet is that, when it comes, he’ll starts calling women who won’t subjugate themselves to his authority “bitches and hos” again like he did in last thread.

Can conservatives really afford this? While this may have limited short term success in motivating the base and defining their opponent, will lowering the bar on what polite society and responsible journalism is willing to call a “lie” be worth it to them? If conservatives are successful in convincing journalists and pundits to use the label in this way, what will that hold for them? The next time Fiorina claims seeing baby butchering video? The next time Carson denies taking money from criminals to help them cheat sick people? The next time Bush claims to have saved Florida’s economy with tax cuts? The next time Rubio claims to be an “outsider”? The next time Trump claims, well, just about anything he claims?

Of course partisans like me use the term to describe lying conservative grifters all the time. And anyone who sees it knows it for partisan rhetoric. But what happens when, by constantly repeating and expanding the label with respect to Benghazi, the media become more comfortable bandying it about, either directly or indirectly? Does that work out well for party of Yellow cake, Cambodia, Harken Energy, Watergate, Mobile Chemical Weapons Labs, Iran-Contra, Alberto Gonzales, October Surprise, El Mozote, Incubator Babies, Peace-With-Honor, Joe McCarthy, Bridge-Gate, Pinochet, Keating-Silverado, Hiking-the-Appalachian-Trail, Ensign-gate, Pentagon Papers, Monica Goodling, and WMDs

It’s not so much about score-keeping here. As no doubt The Fuckwad will follow up with some ranting account of similar liberal perfidy and deception. But more importantly how liberals and conservatives differ in how they cognitively process scandal. Conservatives like The Fuckwad and Boob process scandal in terms of mythos as opposed to liberal logos. The appearance of a scandal has greater impact than the actual facts and circumstances. If the language in common use to describe this sort of dispute becomes more florid or pejorative, conservative audiences will react differently to all such reporting. The knife cuts both ways. But it cuts more deeply at the conservative base.

@28, as expected, you post lies with your misuse of an ellipse. Anyone can see that your claims about the “associations” made in my comments are nowhere to be found, other than in your comment. But, as usual, you miss the point. Which is just as well. The point is not directed at you. Yearning for a public weighing of the “truthiness” of various candidate’s statements is entirely unimportant. It’s the rhetoric that counts, dummy.

If you lower that rhetorical bar among journalists and pundits, then things like Dark Alliance or “October Surprise” become much more difficult to dismiss. And you lose the complicity of the legacy corporate media in your efforts to dismiss them.

If legacy corporate media organs start reporting out stories like that in critical terms, it is likely to be ideological conservatives who change their views about Republican politicians and candidates. Perhaps this is already happening. Perhaps this explains the Teabagger uprising against Republican incumbents and the turn toward “outsiders” by the GOP base. Lose your base and you lose it all.

The batshit crazy loon is obsessed with Benghazi! because he can’t deal with the fact that the last Republican administration lied the nation into a war where 4,000 American lives were needlessly lost, not to mention how those lies led to the rise of ISIS and which were preceded by his favorite president, who was on a month-long vacation after only working for six months, blowing off the Presidential Daily Briefing which warned of a coming Al Qaeda attack on American soil – possibly using hi-jacked aircraft.

That’s over 7,000 Americans dead because the previous Republican president was both lazy and a liar.

@30, well said. Don’t forget Beirut. Bush 41. Etc. Point is, conservatives enjoy rather favored media treatment couched in J-school terms of professionalism, courtesy, and respect. Not because conservative scandal or misbehavior is treated differently. But because the terms of media treatment, when applied equally to liberals and conservatives, can have a very different effect on conservative or liberal audiences. Simps like The Fuckwad analyze what they see as misbehavior through a moral lens. Because of that, the rhetoric matters a whole lot. It’s not so much whether someone tells a lie. It’s whether they are called a liar, and by whom. Notice how lately The Fuckwad has had to resort to labeling the entire media universe a racist liberal conspiracy. That’s his only defense against the cognitive dissonance inherent in his hero’s dishonesty. But you can be sure that plenty of other conservatives, less invested in Carson, are now shopping elsewhere.

Oh yeah that PDB… Go back and read the 9/11 report. Jamie Gorelick’s wall… front and center! CIA could not talk to the FBI… way to go libtards! No mention of anyone lying in the 9/11 report. Heilary’s own emails demonstrate continual duplicity to this day!

Who lied about the Cole? Or is this now simply about terrorist attacks? When the fuck did the cult of bloodlust start caring about terrorism? Certainly not when Junior was sleeping late and riding his ten-speed around Crawford all through August 2001. Make up your mind, Fuckwad. Then let us know, so we can ignore you some more.

On Aug. 25, White House spokesman Josh Earnest was asked about the “jayvee team” remark in a press conference, and Earnest responded by saying “the president was not singling out ISIL” when he made that remark. The Washington Post Fact Checker, however, obtained a transcript of The New Yorker interview, and Kessler declared Earnest’s statement “fairly misleading” and gave it four Pinocchios — the equivalent of a “whopper.”

In an effort to prod a Super PAC into action, while still tiptoeing along the legal boundary, a Cruz campaign operative is planting stories in Politico urging the PACs to move money off the sidelines and into the early state media:

“I assume they’re waiting so their media buyers make the highest commission”

Scarborough mentioned that he met with an NBC News executive about the possibility of having him and Mika host a weekend program on the network. The meeting ended when the executive told Scarborough he couldn’t possibly put him on the air because he was a Republican:

What I’m trying to explain right now is we have been told for 50 years that it’s just about impartiality. The entire process is rigged against us, because liberal network heads would never, ever dream of allowing, let’s say, Brit Hume 10 years ago, to run NBC Nightly News or to run CBS Evening News. They would never dream it because there’s such a built-in, left-wing bias.

Brian Steel worked in Wee Willy Cigarman’s whitey house as a domestic policy adviser to AlGorbasm. It was just one of three jobs Steel held in the Clinton sadministration. He also worked in Clinton’s Department of Justice, where he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Policy Development, and also worked as the associate director of the department’s Office of Public Affairs. Wow this DUMMOCRETIN was everywhere.

Puddy admitted in the previous thread that he’s only harping on Benghazi! because of opposition politics, that it may bring down Hillary’s poll numbers, not for any “truth”. Let me restate that, he’s not looking for the “truth” he’s just looking to drive down Hillary’s pol numbers any way he an.

@43. Some comments I found on the web “Should there be some sort of Affirmative Action program to increase the number of Conservatives in media that isn’t fox news?”

“Joe’s another pu$$y that hates when Teabaggers/Repugs get called out for their failures. He’s bruised that no one has asked him to moderate. Trying to get attention.”

“He can’t hired at fox, so he wants to make all the other stations like fox?”

“What dies he want? some sort of Conservative Fairness Doctrine?”

I don’t know why conservatives are not hired as hosts. Maybe they don’t pencil as profitable. I do know that the hosts that do hire, don’t challenge the endless conservatives they get on the show to spread conservative ideas. If feels like hiring a conservative as a host is like hiring a climate denier as a weather forecaster.

Seems checkmate disappeared after being busted for misrepresentation again. Nothing on USA Today has names or political affiliation for the KKK outage. Funny how DUMMOCRETIN mayors are KKK members butt checkmate didn’t want anyone to know that!

Well y’all know Puddy. I WILL CHECK ANYTHING OUT from checkmate! Too many stooooooooooooooopid rants over the years! Puddy was going to as was this another AEI CAP post.

Steve and RR, I’ve been away awhile, but is Puddy even more lights-out crazy than he was a couple years ago? I can’t even comprehend what he is saying now. Has he been committed to a proper institution capable of dealing with those who have rounded the bend?

@66, actually, I find that whenever he is most wound up his use of quasi-schizophrenic word-salad, fake ebonics, and caps-lock obsession falls away. I presume this is because he believes he has created a “persona” characterized by these traits, and under duress his attention to it’s detail is diminished. The effort implied by this is rather astounding. And sad. Creepy too. But in the universe of trolldom, perhaps this is to be expected? Quite honestly I don’t want to know. I have absolute confidence that the core motivations of a troll are mostly prosaic and utterly predictable having to do with excessively strict toilet training and early betrayal by authority figures. Seen it before. Always ends the same. You’d have to pay me in advance.

A couple years ago the loon was certainly lights-out crazy, but these days he’s a babbling, batshit fucking insane jackass. Big difference, and not a good one.

Wait ’til you get a load of Bob, our racist radiologist. Nothing makes his day quite like an unarmed black being shot dead by the cops. Black while Christmas shopping. Black while jaywalking. Black while selling cigarettes. It don’t matter. Just as long as they’re dead.

@66 “Steve and RR, I’ve been away awhile, but is Puddy even more lights-out crazy than he was a couple years ago?”

Unfortunately yes. Time and cortical degeneration have reduced him to a braying jackass.

@69 In Puddy’s case, “fake ebonics” is redundant, because everything about him is fake, including the whole Puddy persona. As Darryl has pointed out many times, the “person playing Puddy” is acting the role.

All of these entities/individuals contend that Supreme Court decisions are nonbinding, and citizens aren’t required to obey court orders they disagree with. If you go farther back in time, add a bunch of civil rights era southern governors to this list, too, at least one of whom had to be persuaded by the U.S. Army that Supreme Court orders indeed are binding, including on those who disagree with them.

Now wait for it: Puddyidiot is certain to retort that all those southern governors were DUMMOCRETINS, which begs the issue, because they were CONSERVATIVES whose views on race, states’ rights, “judicial tyranny,” etc., align closely with those of today’s Republicans.

Puddyidiot always elevates labels above substance when trying to defend the indefensible; and, after failing at that, he’ll squirt a cloud of squid ink and scuttle off into the gloom.

But, of course, if a group of liberals try to exercise their constitutional rights of assembly and free speech by protesting the latest Republican colonial war, rightwing cops beat them up and tear gas them, and Republicans call them “traitors” and “unpatriotic” and “unAmerican”* and want them executed.

*I’m not going to forget this. Ever. I despise these swine. May they burn in hell.

“But Puddyidiot will also elevate labels above substance when trying to defend the indefensible; “

See @29 and @31. As a conservative, his brain simply works differently. Because he invests all events and circumstances with moral impetus, he perceives relevance more in terms of labels than objective reality. These labels help him simplify and assert causation to events and circumstances, even if no such moral causation exists. And when, as in your example, moral causation shifts over time, it is very difficult for a conservative brain to adjust. The Fuckwad has perceived Carson in terms of labels freighted with morality. Now that it has been demonstrated that Carson’s motivations differ from these labels, he simply rejects that evidence. In much the same way, he rejects any label of the Republican Party as the party of racial oppression, even though this is clearly demonstrated to be the case. He desperately needs the labels and moral rhetoric to hang on to his understanding of the world, and by extension his identity within it.

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